Moderator: Dr. Rainu Kaushal
Thursday, October 15
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (ET)
Meet The Speakers
Melissa Cushing, MD
Director of Clinical Laboratories
Vice Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in Anesthesiology
Dr. Cushing leads the team that built a robust COVID-19 testing program at Weill Cornell Medicine. The institution’s laboratories, operational 24 hours a day, process thousands of COVID samples daily, helping physicians guide treatment for patients.
Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Cornell Institute for Disease and Disaster Preparedness at Weill Cornell Medicine
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and of Medicine
Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, an expert in global health emergency preparedness, helped create the Oxford- and Cornell-based COVID-19 International Modeling Consortium (CoMo Collaborative, https://comomodel.net), which has been used by policy makers in over 50 countries on all six continents to forecast the impact of COVID-19 and associated public health interventions.
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences
Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research, of Medicine, and of Pediatrics
Dr. Rainu Kaushal, a distinguished health-services researcher, information scientist and healthcare leader, is an expert in healthcare quality, patient safety and information technology. She leads Weill Cornell Medicine’s clinical research enterprise, which drives the experimental application and comparative investigations of new medicines, technologies, interventions and healthcare delivery models for patients.
Massimo Loda, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Deputy Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
David T. Thompson Professor of Pathology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Massimo Loda is an internationally renowned molecular pathologist. He works to enhance the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s diagnostic capabilities by introducing new techniques, including those that leverage computational pathology and large data sets to identify patterns and trends in disease.
To learn more about Weill Cornell’s work in this area and the activities of our faculty, please visit these links:
- Read the compelling story of how Dr. Cushing, Dr. Loda and other Weill Cornell Medicine faculty built a COVID-19 testing program from the ground up amid the escalating pandemic.
- In a published study, Dr. Hupert and other researchers reported that the incidence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may have been 80 times greater in the U.S. this spring than previously thought. Also, discover how Dr. Hupert created a “caseload calculator” to forecast the pandemic’s trajectory.
- Learn more about the important work of Dr. Kaushal and colleagues, who are studying the impact of telehealth services during the pandemic, as well as other efforts in the Department of Population Health Sciences
If you are interested in learning more about us or wish to support the important work that was presented by our faculty, please contact us at development@med.cornell.edu.